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Chinadoog

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Hey guys. I'm in the process of looking for a new job for next September and I'm hoping to find a decent university teaching job in Yantai.

Can anyone confirm whether or not Zhii Fu District is a good area of town to live in? A university in that area might want to hire me.

Thanks a lot for any information that any of you can give me about Yantai

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Hey! Yantai's my hometown! Yay!!!

Sorry, but I just got a little carried away since I thought most people didn't even know this city existed.

Anyway, Zhifu District is IMO quite a nice place to live in(I live there whenever I go back to China :mrgreen:) Yantai is quite a lovely city overall, but it's a bit small compared to Qingdao and needless to say, the provincial capitals. But the seafood there is really good (although you might want to be careful due to recent pollution) and the scenery of the ocean is pretty spectular. It basically has everything that a city should have(shopping centres 振华、百盛、大润发..., McDonalds, KFC, lots of restaurants, a few churches, universities, primary/high schools, hospital 毓黄顶医院...)

They do have their own dialect but it's quite understandable to a foreigner so you don't have to worry all that much. Most people will understand/be able to speak Mandarin. It's pronounced virtually the same as standard Mandarin (although nowhere near as much tongue rolling) except the tones are all swapped around and muddled up.

e.g. 学校 Mandarin- xue2 xiao4

Yantainese (if that's a word) -xue4 xiao2

吃饭 Mandarin- chi1 fan4

Yantainese- chi3 fan2

It's pretty easy to pick up once you're there.

Chinadoog, if you do get the job there, tell me what you think of the place.:mrgreen:

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